On Fri 01 Oct 2021 at 14:47:51 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 14:13, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
[...]
> > Since I did not want a wireless install in the
> > first place I plugged it in to the USB.
>
> Well, OK, but what I am getting at is that this means it is a _local_
> device _to that PC_. This is not the same as being a network
> printer/scanner.
Indeed. But these days a modern USB-connected device can be exposed
to the local network.
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting#ippoverusb
> There is infrastructure in Linux and CUPS to share printers over a
> LAN, but CUPS doesn't have anything to do with scanning and it can't
> help you with sharing a scanner.
Correct.
> Indeed, that I know of, _no_ OS has scanner-sharing facilities. Which
> is why, if you want a scanner to be available to different devices on
> a network, you might want to connect said scanner directly to the
> network.
Not really relevant to the main issue, but woth a lokk:
https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork
--
Brian.